Arcs, Curves & Points With Rulers, Week 4 Started

 Hi all -

I hope everyone is doing well! The weather here continues to be warmer than usual, but it looks like there might be some real snow in the forecast. We'll see if it comes through.....

Last week was the final week of Angela Walters' Arcs, Curves & Points With Rulers quilt along (QAL). This video covered quilting the background of the panel. I got started on the background quilting.

Arcs, Curves & Points - Background Quilting

Then I decided to move to the border. I wanted to get rid of the safety pins that were used for basting the quilt and I wanted to get the binding put on so I wouldn't have to deal with the fluff from the batting anymore. I did stitch-in-the-ditch (SID) quilting between the red and white areas of the quilt and then I stitched along the outside edge to keep everything in place. I could now remove all of the safety pins!

Arcs, Curves & Points - Border Stitching

Then I was trying to decide what to quilt in the red area. This wasn't covered by Angela in the QAL videos. But then I watched Angela's weekly live and she said that she would talk about possibilities for the border quilting in the upcoming live session, so I decided to wait to see what she suggests.

In the meantime, I continued working on my Open Minds shawl designed by Laura Nelkin.

Open Minds

I got one end of the shawl finished and made good progress on the other end. I hope to finish this this week.

I also made progress on my Lemme Cowl also designed by Laura Nelkin. 

Lemme Cowl

I'm on the last pattern repeat so this should be finished this week, too.

Nancy